Tense : English Has No Future

CORRECTION:
01:49 Past = Je mangeais. Present = Je mange. Future = Je mangerai

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[Keepcalmandcupcakes]

I've always wanted to make a conlang that is used by a fictional race where time-travel is so normalized that their language has tenses and moods baked in to talk about relative pasts, presents, and futures that are constantly in flux because of their actions, and this video has gotten me one step closer to actually realizing it. Thank you!

[baptistefaussat]

I'm afraid you mixed up the French tenses: Je mange is the present tense, while je mangeais is the past tense, not the other way around.

[largefella]

The past, present, and future walk into a bar...


It was *_tense_*



-I can't make original jokes-

[nicholasgroves]

You give me a completely unnecessary Avatar TLA reference, I give you a thumbs up.
We got a deal?

[DTux]

Who else got a chuckle about the "English has no future" joke

[eruyommo]

When Artifexian gives a whole semester of Geology in a couple of videos, he's not satisfied, now he has taught a whole semester of Morphology.
Believe me, I've gone to both lectures in my two majors. He has covered the whole curriculum of Geology for Engineers and will have covered (perfect future? Nice, I'm practicing!) the whole of Introduction to Morphology.

[eruyommo]

Some Mayan languages have a remote tense that does not care about future or past. So the system is better represented with a circle. The present is at the bottom of the circle, the left is the past, the future is the right and the top is remote tense.

[Dumb-Comment]

When I studied Chinese and English, I'm amazed by how advanced the Chinese language is. Not because of its complexity but because of how simple it is.

[eostyrwinn]

I got an Artifexian video and a Nativlang video in the same day! It's like christmas in summer!

[bagodrago]

I love how you pronounce the letter "R" like "or". It's really caught me off guard.

[michaelheliotis]

This video brilliantly highlights one of the things I _absolutely_ love about the English language: its liberal use of auxiliary verbs to create a multitude of periphrastic verb conjugations. Such a broad capacity for tense, aspect, and mood expressions makes English so rich and functional for communicating complex events and ideas to an extent that is _relatively_ unparalleled in many other languages.

[icannotchoose]

1:49 you mixed up the past and present in french

[RhynoD]

My English grammar professor, Dr. Dorothy Disterheft would strongly disagree with your argument that English has no future tense. That we use the modal "will" instead of a suffix to mark future tense doesn't change that it's still grammatical future tense. She made a point of this pretty much immediately in class (many years ago).

Not that I'm saying you're wrong. I don't have the qualifications to say that. Just pointing out that the argument exists among grammarians.

[snowman]

that's why I love Chinese, my native language. It has no tense unless you give it some.

[palompe]

hi! it is impossible for me to explain with words how much i have enjoyed this video. as a person who wants to spend the rest of his life doing linguistics research, it makes me very happy to find people as enthusiastic with this kind of things.

[typhoonzebra]

You and nativlang uploading in the same day? Yes please.

[dhhq]

Yay! I've been waiting for this series for FOREVER! Excellent start and I can't wait for the rest.

[Smallsilk]

We will be going soon to the park, once it is not raining anymore, of which first we will need to feed the dogs, after we walk them, and after we go to the park, once it isn’t raining, we will eat, after we get to moordoor’s hill, and after we eat we will explore the park, right after everyone uses the bathroom, after everyone has a drink, and after coming back, we will go to the bus to leave, after everyone plays, and then afterwards we will go home, after we arrive back to school, and do the rest of it.
*THE ULTIMATE RELATIVE SENTENCE!*

[SilverPresident]

I have really grown to love this channel. I was caught off guard by the inclusion of a Jamaican Patois referrence and much appreciated it.
I just want to point out though that the pronunciation for "yeside" is 3 syllablles [yeh.si.deh]

Thank you for this channel

[victorosorio]

that way of visualizing the timeline is just so neat, thank u